Or the third party who issued it will end up going to jail following a future legal proceeding.
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That mystified me. Why did they ask for her opinion at all, much less publish it?
Including that unrelated opinion as if it were news definitely made the article look slanted to a point of view.
She gave them what they wanted, the article slant: ‘Horse people are crazy and do crazy things. Stormy Daniels is a horse person. Stormy Daniels is crazy and does crazy things.’
The real point of the article – on the eve of trial – was Stormy. Not ED, of course. ED was just convenient and willing to open up with statements and photography, so let’s use her case.
Stormy lives an eventful life, and is known to sue people (as do others living eventful lives, she isn’t unique in that). They hunted among those she has sued for an easy case to make.
ED’s case has a lot of internet fodder. ED is cooperative with the slant, of course, it’s in her interests. So let’s do ED’s case because it is easy pickings.
Ignoring ABUNDANT hard evidence and first hand witnesses (property owners, past employees, etc.) about ED’s business and horse care practices, going back years before Stormy ever met her. Instead, they cherry-picked a narrow range of those that had an agenda.
Missed that Stormy hasn’t participated in this thread in over 6 years. It continues for all these years because it has gone past Stormy, has been about issues other than Stormy, for years.
And make Stormy look vindictively crazy … right before the trial.
I notice that they didn’t survey a broader scope of TX horse people who know ED, know her practices and know her horses. I’d understand if they reached out to a few who didn’t want to participate. But they clearly didn’t even reach out to event organizers who don’t know Stormy, who wish they could ban ED from their events.
But there was no real investigation into what is behind the lawsuit.
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So, the article’s background is people with an anti-Stormy agenda, people ED pays for services, and some individuals in the USEA who are not close to the issue, and who have not done a serious investigation into ED’s business and horse welfare practices.
A lot of “visited the barn [scheduled] and it was beautiful, case closed”.
Missed the pre-Stormy history, missed the documented problems with horse welfare, the financial problems, the problematic employees around children, missed the problematic behavior in the barn and at offsite horse events. With people who don’t know Stormy, who pre-date Stormy v ED.
This is clearly not a serious bit of reporting to look more deeply into horse welfare with ED, beyond the people that ED pays for services.
This article is solely is about Stormy looking ‘crazy’ … at a strategic moment.
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No mention of the bullet incident either which you would think after the Barisone incident and gun culture in the US it would be an interesting piece of the story.
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Did they reach out to any comments here?
@Jealoushe any chance you or someone could recap the bullet incident? I really don’t want to scroll back through ~1700 posts and my search skills are subpar for this board…
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ED has had major issues going back to at keast 2010 that I know of. That’s how I initially heard of her, listening to huge complaints about her from people involved with her business in some form. Her business was being thrown out of barn after barn. There is so much more they could have reported that has a through line consistency.
But it wasn’t an ED article. It was a Stormy article. No Stormy, no article.
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P.s. I’ve never met, never communicated with Stormy Daniels / Stephanie Clifford.
In case thread visitors are thinking this thread is a Stormy team, or something. It’s not. This hasn’t been about Stormy for years.
Who in this thread has or has not been in communication with Stormy Daniels?
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It’s really slanted in Ellen’s favor. I hope Stormy has the last laugh.
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Stormy did not cause ED’s problems.
ED caused ED’s problems.
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True. Also convenient timing of the publishing, of course.
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My big take away from the article was the author didn’t seem to “get” that it doesn’t have to be one good guy and one bad guy.
All the criticisms of SD can be true and all the allegations against EDH can still be true, ya know?
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Goodness. I haven’t been on COTH in years. I don’t even own horses these days. But I saw that article and needed to swing by. When this thread was new I had a cranky baby, and this was an interesting read on long, sleepless nights. Being in Area V, the people and places were familiar enough and I liked keeping an eye on the developments.
But goodness I hated seeing the article this morning (EH proudly shared it on FB). Eventing community drama hitting national public coverage is like watching your family business aired out for all to see. I couldn’t finish the article-- couldn’t get much past the early parts that made eventers out to be big money A-circuit drama and ED the rare working class hero. Thats not the sport i know. The bias was clear enough, and the author clearly looking for the sensational. Maybe I’ll finish reading it sometime. Is it worth the stress?
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That’s not how WaPo rolls, as one of the most respected news organizations in the country. You can’t buy hit pieces. Those would be op eds or columns, not reportage. But, they sure seemed to have sent out some reporters with no horse experience whatsoever, who came up with a she said but the other she said oh horse people are crazy who can you believe anyway piece of truly slovenly reporting.
Also, most likely a hundred photographs were taken, and the editors selected the ones they wanted, and only they know why.
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It is not.
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How many mainstream reporters have any horse experience, other than the rare people who write about racing? I would guess not many.
Off the top of my head I can think of just one, who is at the New York Times.
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Right, couldn’t even be bothered to sweep the aisles or drag the arena.
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I’ve been reading the Post for a long time and a subscriber for decades. More and more there are articles (particularly in the Style section, but not limited there) that are little more than ads pushing the columnists book, or playing footsie with Trump’s policies. This article was clearly timed and written to discredit SD.
It’s funny that they didn’t bother to check out EH before writing this piece.
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